Just a few pictures from up North chasing pike earlier this year. No big boys this trip although I did have a couple of nice fish on that cut off my fly. Half the fun though is experiencing the strike and then you never really know what a big northern is going to do once it feels that hook in its mouth... It was just a great time being out again on the lakes and ponds that I grew up fishing. Ohh, and the bass fishing wasn't too shabby either...

I will always take a nice smallie on the fly whenever I can, regardless of what I'm fishing for...

Another nice bass that nailed a big popper that I was throwing...

The only northern this year worth showing off. Still a lot of fun even though he is just a little guy...

I stayed on a lake in New York and when I wasn't on the trout streams,I would fish White Lake. It was full of small pike, yellow perch, hige bluegill and both large and smallmouth bass. I think I had a better time there than on the West branch.
Great report and nice pics. Smallie looks like its in really good shape.
Lynn